Youth Today
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for July-August 2006
Nonprofits Jill Pasewalk is in as CEO of the Kansas City, Mo.-based Camp Fire USA, the 96-year-old nonprofit that serves 750,000...
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News
Report Roundup for July-August 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Research
Research of Note for July-August 2006
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2005 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5505a1.htm ...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
After-School Programs Learn to Tutor
Not long ago, after-school programs were specifically not school; they were places for kids to unwind and play. “There was always a...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pioneers for Peace
Detroit, Mich.(313) 745-5053www.pioneersforpeace.org Objective: To increase awareness about the impact of violence and to help reduce violence among youth. In a...
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Opinion
Not Sick Enough
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently announced some positive news at its first National Children’s Mental Health...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Policy and Practice: Will The Gap Ever Close?
Youth workers’ lack of knowledge about and engagement in public policy issues has been noted time and time again at professional gatherings...
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New Ways to Say, ‘Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder’
Dads whose kids were at Blue Star Camps in Hendersonville, N.C., weren’t with their children on Father’s Day, but saw the kids...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Men’s Sufferage in Youth Work
The quiet rebellion over men at the YWCA began seven years ago in Olympia, Wash., and Tucson, Ariz. In a move that...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Don’t Be Scared — It’s Just an EBP
Youth-serving programs are told that there are lots of good reasons to implement evidence-based practices (EBPs). But mandating that agencies adopt...
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News
Child Welfare’s Death Penalty
It’s the ultimate nightmare for child welfare administrators: Tied to a bedpost and weighing just 47 pounds, a 9-year-old Baltimore County, Md.,...
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News
Are You My Mentor?
There’s this guy, a writer. Coaches a boys’ baseball team. He sees the kids three times a week; they have a great...
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Trying to Awaken a Sleeping Treaty
Nobody would count Jeffrey Newman among the uninformed when it comes to children’s rights. But one day last month, the executive director...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Summer Jobs Forcast: Dry
Summer Jobs Forcast: Dry Teens might be in for another job drought this summer. For the sixth summer in a row, teens...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for June 2006
Nonprofits Operating a bicoastal advocacy effort had become more burdensome than beneficial for the Youth Law Center (YLC), a law firm...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Another DeLay Casualty
The precipitous collapse of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s political career is reverberating in national child welfare policy circles. The Hammer,...
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News
Report Roundup for June 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Research
Research of Note for June 2006
What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation Harvard Family Research ProjectAvailable at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/content/projects/afterschool/resources/demographic.pdf When...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Generation Rap
At the Mt. Kisco Day Care Center in Westchester, N.Y., youth in the after-school program often prepare healthy snacks alongside senior citizens....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth Opportunity Boston
Boston, Mass.(617) 541-2602www.cityofboston.gov/bra/yoboston Objective: Connect youth who have been in the juvenile justice system with services that can help them succeed...
